Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
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Providing valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.
List of illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction: visions of muscle Jews xvThe origins of muscular Judaism 1The rhetoric of regeneration: "clear heads, solid stomachs, and hard muscles" 24The aesthetics of regeneration: Martin Buber, E. M. Lilien, and the aesthetic state 65The gymnastics of regeneration: the anatomo-politics of the Jewish body 106The land of regeneration: seafaring Jews and the Zionist colonial imaginary 155Soldiers of regeneration: the military might of old-new Maccabees and the Great War 187Concluding remarks 217Notes 219Index 267
